Energy Dynamics: The Key to Scientific Progress and Survival

 Lately, I have been urged to clarify some principals with which every citizen should be familiar that are critical to humanity's survival. If we as a society fail to understand and act upon these principals we will not provide the economic means for our future generations to live in increasing freedom from want and disease. Therefore, those among us that can grasp the truth must lead the way out of the errors in policies we have adopted. 

Usually, the idea of economics is thought of as the use of money to purchase things. However, money has no real value if there is nothing to purchase with it. Of course that would be an extreme rather Hollywood dystopian scenario. It is easier to see how in a nation that has a collapsed economy, money rapidly loses its value. 

Perhaps one way to approach the lack of understanding due to the prejudice that money has value in itself is through the idea of the need to provide energy to sustain the economy. Recently I came across some interesting and worthy studies regarding energy dynamics. 

Now, one may look at this issue in regard to differing realms of reality. What I mean by this for instance is we can for example view the engine of cellular processes which use ATP. This would be what a very great Soviet era scientist Vladimir Vernadsky called the biosphere. Scientists at the Gladstone Institute carried out an audit of how every gene in human beings have a role in either making or consuming energy in the form of ATP. This study is absolutely critical because the cellular energy throughput is central to biophysics just as it is to the functioning of the physical economy. Our understanding of these functions effects whether we can treat or cure a whole host of human diseases. 

At a totally different realm of reality "a team of physicists from University College London measured the separation between two specific energy levels of positronium, what’s known as its fine structure." This strata is obviously inorganic and would fit into Vernadsky's system as part of the lithosphere. However, this is extremely critical as well for humanity. Why is this so? 

To unravel the answer takes some examination of the progress in providing the energy requirements for the functioning of human economy. As we have moved away from the use of fuel from wood burning to heat our homes and cook our food. (Although we may still use them of course.) However, to propel human industrial mass production we have via technological discoveries and inventions moved through coal for steam power, hydroelectricity and petroleum, to nuclear fission. What has remained constant throughout these changes is an increase in the density and flow of the energy. The so called energy-flux-density throughput.  What this means for our economy is that we can now have more power than at any time in human history. This is what sustains our standard of living and gives value to money! 

Getting back to the research on positronium, we must first understand that the next higher level for energy-flux-density is controlled nuclear fusion. If you read articles at all on the background of this research, usually this issue is not mentioned. However it is absolutely crucial as to why it is so important to the global economy to achieve because we will have at our disposal not only a virtually inexhaustible form of energy using fusion of the most abundant elements in the universe, we will have the highest energy-flux-density we have ever achieved by a so called order of magnitude. This will make previously nearly unbelievable benefits for humanity possible such as providing enough electricity consumption to pull all countries on the face of this planet out of poverty.

However the story does not end with fusion. And this is where the positronium research comes in. This is because theoretically we know that what are called matter/anti-matter reactions can be even a step beyond fusion energy. This research is however merely in its infancy. But discovering that there is something we don't understand about the structure of such states of the lithosphere, a so called anomaly, is the necessary way forward for humanity. 

A Supplication

 

Tell me, Ourania, Muse of Astronomy: Can anyone steeped in the vapid doctrines of entropic physics yet still look upon such views of our universe and not be brought to truly marvel at such nonpareil majestic order?

For this, the minds across the ages that immerse themselves unalloyed in reflecting a selfless love of grandure's sublimity partake of immortality whosoever they be.

So too, returning to fathom the immensity of Time's ever fecund riddle with gifts for a renewed mission such Futurity beckons ever and anon. It is there in all Your works of lofty wonderment.

Riemannian Surfaces and Biophysics: Branch Points to Nonlinear Functional Space

Recently, I came across some interesting research papers on medical imaging using conformal mapping techniques derived from Riemann. As I noted above in the caption to this blog Riemann's bold claim that the mind is itself a "compact, multiply connected thought mass with internal connections of the most intimate kind. It grows continuously as new thought masses enter it, and this is the means by which it continues to develop." 

Now the question that I shall pose here is how can one understand the difference between surfaces as mere mathematical relics and multiply connected functional phase spaces. This issue is akin to the use of the highly developed compositional tools of fine arts such as the form of the tragic or comedic drama. For instance, one may put on stage a five act play that outwardly resembles in its surface features, say Shakespeare's Othello, and yet its content be entirely vapid and without merit. 

So the issue that I want to bring to the fore is the question of what gives meaningful substance to Riemann's above hypothesis about the mind? To do this, we must inquire about what is meant by "thought masses."  Given that Riemann himself revolutionized non-Euclidian geometry, leading to Einstein's etablishment of a metric for multiply connected non-Euclidean spacetime, "thought masses" can only be taken as ideas of a very higher ordered class. That is, those ideas that propel humanity to a qualitatively new material and creative level of functioning. 

Now it is my contention that Riemann's critical geometric breakthroughs, indeed, had precisely this unique benefit for society. As Benjamin Franklin would have it, they performed the office across generations of "doing the good." In using the term "functional phase space" one must distinguish the domain that is referenced. Riemann has referenced the qualitatively highest domain in the quote I have cited from his philosophical fragments. It was Vladimir Vernadsky's systemization of such domains into three overarching and interacting "spheres," the noosphere or distinctly human mind, the organic or biosphere, and the inorganic or lithosphere.  

Thus, for instance, when applying a Riemannian mapping technique of surface features of the brain's sulcuses, it must be kept in mind that Riemann himself understood that it is the growth process of moving through a singular branch point from one functional manifold (surface) to another more developed transfinite domain that separates the truly human mind from the merely physical brain. 

COVID 19 and Green New Deal Hypocrisy

There is a glaring inconsistency in the position taken by the promoters of the Green New Deal. Simply put, they should be welcoming pandemics. After all, their ideology is, in the final analysis, based upon the logic of Parson Malthus. That is, the idea that population will always outstrip the resources necessary to support it.

One of the few frank and honest practitioners of climate change politics is the President Emeritus of the World Wide Fund for Nature, Prince Philip, consort of HRH Queen Elizabeth. As has been widely reported the Prince sincerely wishes to be reincarnated as a deadly virus to reduce "overpopulation:"

"Back in 1988, the duke brought up overpopulation when speaking to the German news agency Deutsche Press Agentur about reincarnation.

“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation,” The Telegraph quoted Philip saying at the time."

Anyone buying into the policy prescriptions of the Green New Deal whether they are aware of it or not, is likewise relegating humanity to an unsustainable lack of resources. This means increased famine, pandemics and wars. 

The alternative is what this author has been promoting for the past 45 years. An economy based upon a mobilization of a scientific revolution in energy production: nuclear fusion.

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr or Alexander Hamilton? -- It's About Principles Not Statues

Even though Jefferson wrote "All men are created equal," in the Declaration of Independence he did not live up to it in practice. Instead he promoted the bloody mob rule of the French Revolution's anarchists and planned for, and put into practice, a slave based manufacturing economy in the United States. When Jefferson was challenged by Benjamin Banneker, an African American astronomer, as to why the principle that he wrote into the declaration should not apply to all humans regardless of their skin color, he tried to tarnish Banneker's intellectual abilities.

Jefferson vehemently opposed Alexander Hamilton's National Bank. Aaron Burr, then the Vice President, shortly after killing Hamilton in a duel and wanted for murder in New York, was feted by Jefferson at the White House. This was the same Burr who had used chicanery to get legislative approval by falsely claiming to contract for supply fresh water to the New York City, and instead to create what was to become Chase Manhattan Bank via a technicality written into the legislation. Contrary to the populous ruse of being against "big banks" Jefferson and his allies like Burr were really opposed to the economic principles that Hamilton as President Washington's Treasury Secretary clearly enunciated in his reports to Congress promoting a National Bank. In those reports, Hamilton openly attacked Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations dogma that free trade in the bounty of nature was the source of profit. Instead, Hamilton located wealth as the ability of humanity to improve nature through applying the principles of scientific advances to increase the well being of society.

Hamilton was the instigator and author of Washington's policy of non engagement in the French Revolution that was encapsulated in his Farewell Address. Today's anarchists are the current pawns of the "too big to fail" banks in London and Wall Street.

Today, America's manufacturing base has been decimated by the free trade deal economics of the same Chase Manhattan that Jefferson's friend Burr fraudulently created. Today's anarchists promote the Green New Deal economics that would further reduce the living standards of the world's populations. In effect they are allies of the looting of America, not merely in their actions in riots, but in the plundering of America's industrial base by free trade corporate raiders and the race to the bottom of outsourced cheap labor.

So the question is will we resolve to put the ship of state aright by reorganizing the economy via the genius of  Alexander Hamilton's principles or will we continue to be duped by the heirs of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

Postscript: I am in the midst of reading a rather remarkable piece detailing the history of the Jefferson versus Hamilton factions in the early 1800s entitled "Ireland, Haiti and Louisiana and the Idea of a Continental Republic (1797 – 1804)" by Gerald Therrien. I find this note discussing Hamilton's preference for Jefferson over Burr: 

"Monroe did not rule out the issue of war, he simply (and honestly) stated that if there was to be war, it should be under a ‘republican’ government and not a ‘federalist’ one. He was more worried of losing power than of a war. This confirms General Hamilton’s opinion of the ‘republicans’, and why he disagreed passionately with their ‘Jacobin’ ideology. But he never doubted their patriotism or would call them traitors. This can be seen in the question of Jefferson or Burr for president. While General Hamilton greatly disagreed and distrusted Jefferson, he found him infinitely preferable to Burr. This could also be seen among the ‘republicans’ – when a dinner was held on the eve of Monroe’s departure from Washington City, and every ‘republican’ congressman and senator attended, along with Pichon and Yrujo, but Burr was not invited!!!"

I would point out that what I have written in the foregoing about Jefferson's fete of Burr in D.C.  after his assassination of Hamilton. Also in regard to the history of Jefferson's plan for extending a slave manufacturing economy after ending his Presidency please see this enlightening article in the Smithsonian Magazine: The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder By Henry Wiencek. This actually further explains the French perfidy in the case of their freeing of the Hatian slaves only when it suited their geopolitical agenda to be rescinded as they treacherously did in the war they carried out against Toussaint Louverture under Napoleon.

Perspective

See here what the ever soaring intellect of humanity has wrought.
Two small jewels against this panorama of Saturn's rings
Now tested with a new plague. What will endure?
The gods of yore that we like sheep are shorn
Or you prophetic seer of a future unfurling
To as yet undiscovered bourns
Without the guileful pantheon
That are not but yokes upon our will
To strive unfettered to galaxies beyond:

The Earth and Moon viewed from Saturn.

Leibniz against Hobbes and Nominalism

Very worthwhile reading here. Some quotes from Leibniz follow:

"Hobbes seems to me to be a super nominalist, for not content like the nominalists, to reduce universals to names, he says that the truth of things itself consists in names and what is more, that it
depends on the human will, because truth allegedly depends on the definitions on terms, and definitions depend on the human will. This is the opinion of a man recognized as among the most profound of our century, and as I said, nothing can be more nominalistic than it. Yet it cannot stand. In arithmetic, and in other disciplines as well, truths remain the same even if notations are changed, and it does not matter whether a decimal or a duodecimal number system is used."

" One must confess that there is something strange and indefensible in the opinions of Mr. Hobbes. He maintains that doctrines touching the divinity depend entirely upon the determination of the sovereign, and that God is no more the cause of the good than of the bad actions of creatures. He maintains that all that which God does is just, because there is none above him with power to punish and constrain him."

For Leibniz truth was the doing of the good not some mere nominalist definition of terms. The British East Indies Company needed to navigate in order to loot and plunder. Therefore, for them, the naming of the positions of the points on the globe were highly relevant to get to their next victim. For Leibniz, knowledge of how to perform beneficial work as he demonstrated in his law of force: akin to today's mission to achieve the next higher plateau of energy density throughput of nuclear fusion. For Leibniz, in his day, it was the unleashing of a steam engine for the purpose of transportation in collaboration with Denis Papin. This is the alternative to the rank absurdity and quite frankly evil use of nominalism by the super nominalist Hobbesians of today: the geopolitical looting and reducing the population potential of the planet by enforcing backwardness and hindering progress with their anti scientific quackery. 

Economics: Magic or Science

There is a widely held and prevalent belief that money, whether it be paper or electronic, in itself has value. This magical belief is proven to the holder of such due to the empirical proof that a quantum of money can be exchanged for "x." Where x may any good or service available to be sold on the "marketplace." We hear many voices today during the current pandemic promoting a universal guaranteed income. Whether a true believer in money as value be conservative or liberal only changes the complexion of whose interests are considered paramount. The rugged self made individual heroically navigating the free market or the downtrodden and exploited "people."

The flip side of the coin to these worldviews, however can be just as wrong. The belief not in money per se, but in some source of static physical commodities. The populist will often maintain that gold is real money because it is a physical good. Again one can substitute any physical good, whether relatively perishable or not, in this particular equation.

What is missing here is that in this algebraic mentality that there is economic "stuff" as a given. Instead of locating the process of physical production itself as the primary "stuff" of an economy. Now this correct and scientific standpoint is found throughout history in either explicit terms or in practice. The outstanding modern references appear most distinctly in the writings of Gottfried Leibniz, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Carey and Lyndon LaRouche.

The axiomatic presumptions of all but a very few in this regard are indeed akin to the blind leading the blind. And the current course of Wall Street bailouts of untold trillions, or rather, quadrillions in putative monetary values if not reversed will soon prove that such presumptions have been grossly in error all along...

The Revolution of Biophysical Energy Throughput

Several years ago in this space I had occasion to highlight the role of the marvelous machinery of the ATPase protein as the basis for both aerobic and anaerobic metabolism. The revolutionary succession in the history of the biosphere to ever more efficient capture and utilization of energy is a quality of negative entropy.

This centers upon higher life forms' symbiotic adoption of the mitochondrion as the source for this function. Consider what sort of power inheres in the subsumption of this relatively more simple organelle to perform work for whole new classes of living entities. It is very much analogous to a breakthrough invention that humanity makes when it undergoes a revolution in the type of energy throughput characterizing its production. (Such as for instance the passage from burning wood to burning coal.)

The larger question here is how the motive force that carries on such problem solving exists in the ongoing development of universal lawfulness. This is in stark contrast to the childish assumption that the universe is "running down" like some enormous wind up clock. Thus it was in Raphael's brilliant cartoon of Aristotle and Plato. And as it was in Leibniz refutation of the outlook of rank empiricism of Newton and company.

Wall Street and the City of London Are Worse Diseases than the Novel Coronavirus

The transition away from the successful World War II United States industrial mobilization to the post industrial/information/radical environmentalist age junk heap through the looting by the financial oligarchy centered in  Wall Street and the City of London is now approaching its necessary end.

Either we shut down this control and reinstate American system economics (of which China is now, ironically, the closest prime example) here and on a global scale or humanity will not survive.

The choice is that stark.

Quazar Tsunamis: the Ubiquity of Shockwave Phenomena

The lawful self similarity of phase space energetics at the level of macrocosm and microcosm has been recently confirmed yet again with the discovery of quazar tsunamis. This finding, in fact, confirms a sort of relativity underlying the physically causal nature of the Riemannian principal of shockwave propagation. It adheres at the limits of the all interconnected inorganic, organic and human thought processes as Vernadsky hypothesized.

If there be any sense in a quest for a so called unified field theory, this principle is the only one that produces intelligible universal bounding conditions. For it is certain that as humanity moves forward to embark upon conquest of "outer space" and all that will emerge as spin-off results, the apparent fixed physical laws will forever be redefined as unique states of matter are produced. For such is the nature of the Continuous Creation and the true meaning of the dictum of Leibniz that indeed we inhabit the best of all possible worlds.

On the Current Crisis in Astrophysics

The discrepancies of the measurements of the rate of expansion of the universe or lambda calls out for new physics. In the 17th century the difficulty in modeling the planetary orbits was overcome by Kepler with a revolutionary geometric approach that it is entirely deceptive in its simplicity. The measurements were quite accurate due to the development of telescopes, however none except Kepler moved from the idea of circular to elliptical motion. Thus this one unique individual Johannes Kepler has made space travel possible.

Not that there wasn't groundwork in the developments that made this leap possible. In Kepler's Mysterium Cosmigraphicum he insists polemically that the correct method for formulating hypotheses is anti-algebraic or equivalently through radically constructive geometric means. This point is central to anything which has fueled further advancements in the laws of physics up until today.

For that which Albert Einstein accomplished with relativity could not have occurred without the likewise radically constructive restatement of the foundations of geometry by Bernhard Riemann. And precisely what was accomplished via Einstein's leap was a comprehensive framework governing how measurement itself is determined by its relation to the invariant physical speed of light with regard to universal motion. Hence, the need for a dimension of time that could account for this constant.

The quest for resolving the paradox contained in the conflicting measurements of the expansion rate of the finite yet boundless geometry of the universe will have to be likewise grounded in an updated continuation of this core method. Today the issue seems to question the invariance of types of electromagnetic propagation across vast stretches of space. So what physical principle might underlie this paradox? Is there something in the very character of composition of the geometry that can account for this disparity? It would seem that accounting for such fluctuations needs to be resolved on a yet higher domain for comprehending a more inclusive subsuming physical principle than is currently hypothesized. One interesting thought that comes to mind is the issue of the topology of the entirety of the universe taken as a whole. For instance, Kurt Gödel proposed that the universe itself rotates. Could this account for  a preferred directionality of anisotropy and difference in rates of propagation of the microwave background versus the measurement of the red shift through gravitational lensing?

Re: Russiagate Investigation Now Endangers Obama

The Russia/Ukraine and NATO question cannot be overlooked as motivation for this den of thieves. Recall that a pack of Harvard reformers opened up Russia for massive looting when they swooped in during the Yeltsin era to buy up shares of Russian assets that were distributed wholesale to the population. The US ex-patriot swindler Bill Browder (now British subject) whom John McCain championed with the phony Magnitsky Act that Obama signed into law was part of this apparatus. This carpet-bagging swindle continued in Ukraine with billions being carried out by Democratic operative's families like Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, et al. 

The overlying issue is the debt bomb that was created by the derivative securities of these same Harvard "quants." Since 2008 the Bernanke helicopter bailouts has created an even larger bubble that will inevitably blow. When that happens either the out of control speculative financiers that created this mess will lose their power through bankruptcy via return to Glass-Steagall and the US will arrange for new trade agreements with the BRICS nations or these loonies will provoke WWIII.

This is why they fear more than anything about an out of control Trump. For what he might do in a financial geopolitical crisis.

The True Motivation for the Impeachment of President Trump

The simple truth is that Trump is being impeached for attempting to withdraw the United States from what George Washington called foreign entanglements. The so called elite foreign policy establishment views America as the enforcer of a system of global governance. This system is ruled over by transnational control of financiers' interests. This is the speculative global gambling casino of uncollected and insanely hyper leveraged bubble of exotic debt instruments

The United States was founded in opposition to the very same interests, in many cases the very same royal families sitting atop this financial empire. This is why George Washington acting upon the advice of the architect of true American economic miracle Alexander Hamilton issued that admonition against "globalism" in his farewell address.

The reckoning is coming sooner rather than later.

Rembrandt and Beethoven: Art as the Mediated Essence of Creative Mentation

This Rembrandt self portrait is quite wonderfully ironic in its self reflexive mastering of inner and outward effect of light in painting. Very similar to Beethoven's late quartets in going beyond its medium. Breaking the previous artistic boundaries in a lawful non arbitrary manner is the essence of the Promethean nature that elevates humanity.

The Process of Becoming and Scientific Hypothesis

Recently a wonderful example of development of hypothesis for biophysics was published. Since this advancement in our understanding of the dynamics of the genome overturns previous assumptions about the looping of DNA, it neatly fits the principle of hypothesis generation. The previous false notion that the genome was static is indicative of a broader psychology prevalent in science overall.

My role in these pages is to elucidate that type of higher hypothesis governing how scientific inquiry itself necessarily evolves. It is upon that platform that we may search out and garner revolutionary advances for the advancement of civilization. Properly situating (cf. Leibniz on analysis situs) the mechanisms of biophysics as a substantive process of organic biospheric development.

The psychology of analyzing what are referred to as "systems" as fixed lifeless remnants is inherent to the creation of  the manifold crises confronting humanity across fields of knowledge, from quantum physics to astronomy. We see this in the ironic crisis of astrophysics quite starkly that the more we advance in creating instruments of searching the universe more profoundly across the electromagnetic spectrum, the less we seem to know! The very idea promulgated by generations of mathematicians that the mere labeling of points in the "probability space" of matrix manipulations somehow is equivalent to knowledge, illustrates this problem in the extreme.

In contrast to this sort of static worldview, as Heraclitus many centuries ago elucidated -- reality is not thing-like. It is a process of becoming ever more perfect, or better yet less imperfect. Now, for the lower realms of reality that process whether it be inorganic or biophysical is not willful. It evolves according to its own universal dynamics. The human mind however is of a qualitatively higher ordering principle. It need not physically evolve into a more biologically "fit" organism. For the human mind taken as the entirety of the development of civilization, is by its very nature composed of unfolding revolutionary change when we are performing in coherence with the aforementioned Hericlitian principle.

Sunday song

Here to compose on this October morn
The age of adulthood's starry throne
Doth beckon whilom with grace
Yet prods us on like the wilderness
Calls on thee my love to partake
The balm in my arms a minute
To midnight...
It is not too late.

The Manner in Which Mental Constraints or Axioms Color Scientific Research

This morning I read an article about the universal dark flow by a London based "science writer." Of course, this is nothing new at all. In fact, as I have been remarking for lo these many years here, evidence of a vectored evolution of the universe is manifold. Moreover, it breaks down as an ordered transfinite series along the lines that Vladimir Vernadsky limned. The lithosphere, the biosphere and the noosphere. All of these interacting with each other in a potentially negentropic fashion governed by the lawful overarching character of the human species creative mentation. That in its essence taken as a completed true infinity of simultaneity.

Which brings us to the issue of the multiverse. Our brave author referenced above sees this dark flow as evidence of... a multiverse. Contrary to claims by some that string theory or "grand unification theories" are mathematically beautiful, they instead are quite ugly. Who in their right mind would call the so called landscape of string theory claiming that there are 10⁵⁰⁰ possible universes anything other than hellishly deranged?

And yet these men of genius are paid quite well for this "quantlike" gobbledygook and even get million dollar prizes for spewing such mental detritus. For my money, they are no more sane than for instance the demented ramblings of the notorious Mohamed El Naschie.

The problem is one of ideological blinders. If your critically unexamined worldview is conformal with a pantheon pagan paradigm of bestial distinctly unhuman relations of a Hobbesean war of each against all then your conclusions about science will be predetermined along that trajectory. Take for example the late Steven Hawkings crazy drivel about the danger of contacting alien civilizations which would presumbably be gunning to destroy humanity. Etc, etc, ad infinitum...  A truly bad infinity.

Trump's Looming Economic Dilemma

While it is the case that Trump understands you do need steel, infrastructure and energy to build hotels and gambling casinos, what he doesn't get about the economy will destroy us in the end. The problem is that without replacing the astronomical level of global bad debt with national banking agreements its collapse is inevitable. 

The economy is not a zero sum game wherein each must scramble for a slice of a fixed pie. New technologies redefine resources. If Trump understood that he would not only be pursuing expanding the space program, he would announce a massive Manhattan style research program to achieve nuclear fusion as well as a multi trillion dollar infrastructure national investment. But that cannot be done without an orderly end to the speculative bubble known as derivative securities that the Federal Reserve has been dutifully propping up like some latter day parody of Sisyphus.

A return to Glass-Steagall is the first step. Ending the trade war scenario with joint agreements among the main global powers for real economic development as opposed to geopolitics is the second step.

The Next Revolution: Nuclear Fusion and Space Colonization

Let us imagine time as concomitant with human history and gauged relative to its technological power. This is in essence economic time. If one measures society's ability to sustain its expanded reproduction at successively higher rates of energy flux density as a Riemannian manifold, time is characterized as a dimension in that n (+1) dimensional matrix.

From that standpoint then we can clearly view the various historical epochs of relative population densities as either in an upward or downward trajectory signifying relative prosperity and growth or poverty and collapse.

The current conjuncture of history mandates that in order to survive we must develop a whole new degree of freedom. As the title of this article states that entails taming nuclear fusion both as a source of energy and as fuel for a space faring society. Then we will truly have "time enough and pace" to  "make time run." Only then will humanity emerge from its mental captivity to the insane and ugly worldview of the oligarchical human zoo.